(The fourth watch, there is wood!) ）

Gao Zongting also rushed to Dengzhou City after dawn, and Hu Yuer also came to Dengzhou City with Gao Zongting.

The situation is much simpler, as long as Hu Yu'er and other sailor generals have no intention of surrendering to the enemy and are willing to cooperate, it is easy to master; With Zhao Hu leading his troops to defend the pass at the southern foot of the port mountain, the knife fish village is not easy to be attacked by enemy cavalry.

In comparison, the situation in Dengzhou City is much more complicated.

The defenders of Dengzhou City took advantage of the chaos to flee and dispersed half, and finally gathered more than 300 people, and they didn't know if they could be trusted.

Yuan Zhixing and other officials are also of different factions, and Liu Yefei is either close or sparse, and I don't know how many people have bribed Liu Yefei to have a good enemy to join - even if most of the officials are still innocent, Liu Yefei, who is the chief official of Dengzhou, is convicted of defecting to the enemy, and the officials below can calm down at this time before they can call it a ghost.

What is even more chaotic is that the 50,000 or 60,000 people in the city, when the great enemy is approaching, they are like flies without a head, and the ruffians and hooligans on the streets take advantage of the chaos to make trouble, take advantage of the fire to rob, and now it is even more chaotic.

It is not only necessary to evacuate the people and materials in Dengzhou from the sea, but also to mobilize propaganda as much as possible to evacuate the villagers and peasants outside Dengzhou, so as to weaken as much as possible the military assistance that Yanhu can get after occupying Dengzhou.

Of course, Dengzhou City is still seven or eight miles away from the coast, if Zhao Hu can't successfully repel the cavalry sent by Chen Zhihu, under the peep of the enemy cavalry, it will be extremely difficult to organize 50,000 or 60,000 people to retreat from Dengzhou City by sea.

Now it is not much easier to rely on a battalion of infantry to settle the situation in Dengzhou and restore the most basic defense, which is not much easier than Zhao Hu leading the main force to Qijia to block the cavalry division sent by Chen Zhihu.

Gao Zongting has also come to Dengzhou many times, and he has also met with Yuan Zhixing and other Dengzhou officials, of course, he is not as familiar with the situation in Dengzhou as Hu Yu'er.

In addition, Liu Yefei's accusation of defecting to the enemy must be confirmed, and in front of the officials and people of Dengzhou, Hu Yuer's evidence is naturally more convincing.

"Liu Zhi... Lord Yanagi... Willow Leaf Fly Him... He... Secretly surrendered to the enemy! Futong sentenced Yuan Zhixing to tell Gao Zongting and Hu Yu'er that Liu Yefei secretly surrendered to the enemy, and colluded with Chen Zhihu to seek Dengzhou, and was stunned for a while, and stammered for a long time before he said it round.

"Liu Yefei has been captured, although his henchmen and cronies have escaped, they have also caught a few, please ask Lord Yuan to interrogate him personally." Gao Zongting said.

Gao Zongting's official official in Huaidong is the canonical order, and his title under the command of the Southern Division of the Military Intelligence Department is only established within Huaidong, and outsiders will not recognize it - the military secretary's canonical order is a lowly and powerful official, similar to the main book, and it is far more than the official rank when it is spread out on the table.

Huaidong pretended to be a special envoy of Jiangning, and entered Daoyu Village with a letter from the Ministry of War, claiming that he had a secret decree to lure Liu Ye to fly out of Dengzhou City - this matter is not small, but it can confirm the charge of Liu Yefei to the enemy, and it is not too big to say that it is big.

In addition to this, the rush to confirm the charge of Liu Yefei's defection to the enemy is also out of the hope that Yuan Zhixing and other Dengzhou officials can actively cooperate with their need to evacuate people and materials from Dengzhou City.

Gao Zongting, Zhao Hu and their troops are barely enough to control Dengzhou City and Daoyu Village, and the counties of Laizhou, Laiyang, Haiyang, Pingdu, Zhaoyuan and other counties under the jurisdiction of Dengzhou Mansion are relatively scattered.

Including Zhao Zhen, who was stuck in Pingdu, he may not be willing to believe Huaidong and Hu Yu'er's one-sided words, and Yuan Zhixing and other Dengzhou officials can play an important role at this time......

"This ......" Yuan Zhi only thought that Liu Yefei was a greedy and fearful of death at the beginning of the rise, and he never thought that he had secretly defected to the enemy, and Hu Yu'er's initial reaction was the same, it was difficult to accept this fact, and after hesitating for a long time, he said, "Please also ask Lord Gao to call the shots...... He was not pedantic At this time, he still fought with Gao Zongting for the right to take charge, and he also knew that the Huaidong soldiers and horses had come ashore, and the people of Dengzhou could only hope that the Huaidong soldiers and horses could repel the captives.

Even if Liu Yefei is wronged, he will not have a chance to appeal until he has the life to go to Jiangning.

Thousands of Huaidong reinforcements came ashore, and there was no sense of urgency in Dengzhou City to press the border, and Yuan Zhixing, these Dengzhou officials, finally returned to some normal.

Hu Yu'er said that Liu Yefei led his troops to the outside of the swordfish walled city and heard that the Huaidong army had entered the city and turned around and fled, and Yuan Zhixing believed most of it - as the saying goes, what is it if you don't be a thief?

Liu Yefei was seriously injured in the chaotic battle, was hit by an arrow in the ribs, and his sternum was trampled on by the horse's hooves, and he did not die on the spot, but only suffered for a few more days; Occasionally, I woke up, and soon passed out in pain, so naturally I couldn't interrogate.

His nephew Liu Zhiyong has some backbone, and insists that Huaidong and Hu Yu'er framed them - but there are few henchmen and cronies involved in the matter, and there are few people as backbone as Liu Zhiyong.

Liu Yefei's righteous son Liu Fang failed to escape while the soldiers were captured, and soon he couldn't stand the torture, and he confessed that Liu Yefei conspired with Chen Zhihu through Liu Zhiyong.

More importantly, Zhang Xie's letter persuading him to defect to the enemy was found in Liu Yefei's house - the evidence was conclusive, and it was not Liu Zhiyong's turn to quibble.

Yuan Zhixing and other Dengzhou officials believed that Liu Yefei had indeed defected to the enemy at this time, whether it was in his mouth or in his heart, they hated Liu Yefei to death, and immediately imprisoned nearly 100 people from his family and his confidants, and then sent them back to Jiangning for disposal.

Fortunately, Liu Yefei was afraid that it would be easy for many people to get through the rumors, and the only ones who really knew about it were the few wingmen and henchmen that Liu Yefei brought with him when he went to Dengzhou from Jiangning, and there were not a few officials in the Dengzhou Mansion who fell into it-no matter that the officials of Dengzhou Mansion may not have discipline at all before the arrival of the great enemy, but they can still be used to organize the people to retreat now.

dragged on until noon, and the chaotic scene in Dengzhou City finally settled down a little.

When Zhao Hu entered the city, Liang Shou and Shi Anjin, who gathered miscellaneous soldiers to recapture the northern city, showed extraordinary courage and discipline, and at this time, they also temporarily entrusted Gao Zongting with important tasks to assist Chen Enze in restoring the defense of Dengzhou City - in addition to experience, the more important thing is the courage to calm down and resist in the face of enemy pressure.

Speaking of Liang Shou, Gao Zongting had also heard that there was such a number one person in Dengzhou City.

Liang Shou was born as a butcher, and it took a lot of effort to squeeze into the yamen as a servant, and he was chivalrous and righteous, and he was quite prestigious in the market.

As soon as Liang Shou came forward, he immediately pulled thousands of brave men from the streets and alleys to the head of the city to assist in the defense. Compared with mediocre officials such as Yuan Zhixing, Liang Shou is more important to the urgent situation that Dengzhou is currently facing - Huaidong is also willing to promote such officials and generals, which may be the core of Huaidong's rapid rise.

There are more heroes than recklessness, but it also takes time to create; If there is no enemy army to the scene, even if Liang Shou, who was born in a lowly household, is quite famous in the market, he will not have any future, and most of them can only be an unknown old man in Dengzhou as an ordinary servant.

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Dengzhou is mountainous and hilly, the mountain is not high, more than 100 zhang, like Kunyu Mountain, Danya Mountain, Buling, Gushan and other major mountain systems in Dengzhou, the highest is only about 300 zhang, far less than the Zhejiang-Fujian mountain is steep and difficult to climb.

However, the cavalry troops had to pass through the territory of Dengzhou quickly, and there were only a few routes to pass. After all, even the most gentle hills, coupled with the obstruction of mountains, forests, streams and rivers, will greatly delay the speed of cavalry passing.

Qijiaji is located at the southern foot of the Buling Mountains, adjacent to Gushan Mountain in the south, is a wide ditch leading to Dengzhou City, less than 40 miles away from Dengzhou. If you don't take the Qijia Collection, climb over the Buling Ridge or take a detour from the southern foot of Gushan Mountain, you will have to walk nearly a hundred miles to see the gate tower of Dengzhou City - in addition to the cavalry division sent by Chen Zhihu, in addition to taking the Qijia Collection Road, Gao Zongting and Zhao Hu can't figure it out, which way will they go?

Even if Qijia is empty, it is not too late to withdraw to Dengzhou City or Daoyu Village.

The key is that whoever enters the battlefield first and controls the battlefield will take the initiative.

Ge Changgen first and Zhao Huaishan, the general of Dengzhou Town, led 300 soldiers to walk the trail overnight, crossed the port ridge, entered the Qijia set, released scouts on the periphery of the Qijia set, blocked the passage in and out, and also boiled water for the follow-up soldiers and horses.

Zhao Hu led his troops to arrive at Qijiaji at the corner of the day, and the outpost rangers of the enemy cavalry also approached the periphery of Qijiaji. The enemy's outpost had come into contact with the Huaidong Army scouts and immediately recovered, and the 2,000 cavalry had approached the distance of less than 20 miles from Qijiaji.

The cavalry rode fast, and it took less than an hour to travel twenty miles.

If you want to attack completely quietly in broad daylight, you need the enemy to be very stupid. Being able to enter the battlefield an hour earlier than the enemy cavalry is a great advantage, which means that the infantry can get valuable rest time to recuperate their strength, and can organize their formation and wind up their crossbow arrows in advance before the cavalry rushes up.

"When the enemy sees us blocking here, will they retreat?"

Zhao Hu summoned the generals to discuss the matter, and Ge Changgen was first worried that this battle would not be successful.

Zhao Hu pouted and asked Ge Changgen: "If we lead two thousand cavalry over and know that there are three thousand foot soldiers in the field in front of us, will we retreat, take a detour, or rush over?" ”

"Time is in time, I can't bear to take a detour, in this situation, I want to change with the enemy general, of course I rush over!" Ge Changgen said.

"That's it," said Zhao Hu, "the enemy cavalry exerted its strength from Baibu in the south of Changyi, galloped all the way over, and walked four hundred miles in less than two and a half days to get here. Even if there are horses to change on the road, people can't bear it, and when they come here, they can hold their breath. If you don't rush over with all your might, you will take a detour and let out the energy you are holding. If it were someone else, he might retreat, but the fierce general sent by Chen Zhihu should have an addiction to fighting tough battles, and if I lose, he will come to attack us - the most important thing at the moment is whether we can withstand the impact of 2,000 cavalry? ”

Zhao Huaidong is a general under Hu Yu'er, and he has longed for the past when Lin Jian led 3,000 foot soldiers to run rampant in Yannan for a long time, thinking that the enemy cavalry is only 2,000 people, or the labor division is far away, they have more than 3,000 Huaidong infantry armor here, how can they all fight?

Zhao Hu threw out such a question, Ge Changgen frowned, how could the three thousand foot soldiers gathered in the Qijia set be comparable to the Jiangdong Left Army that Lin Jian led to the north back then?

At that time, the Jiangdong Left Army seemed to be composed of displaced people, but in fact, it was based on Jiyun Wuwei and the elite of Changshan Island as the backbone, and they had a tacit understanding of each other's cooperative operations than the elite of a hundred battles, and the 3,000 foot soldiers behind them, most of which were borrowed from Duodongzhou and Danluo State, even during the Danluo Island war, there was rarely a chance to closely coordinate operations. Even the infantry under the jurisdiction of the Haidong Xing Battalion is established as a second-line infantry battalion, and even the number of flying contradictory vehicles is far less than that of elite combat battalions such as Changshan Island.

"Mr. Gao said that if you carry it directly, even if you can carry it, the casualties will be heavy, and it will not be cost-effective," Ge Changgen said, "The enemy cavalry is not familiar with the terrain of the Bu Ridge, so we will set up the following formation in Qijia, lure the enemy to attack, and firmly attract its 2,000 soldiers and horses to the periphery of Qijiaji, and then send a partial division to take the Bushan trail, go around its flank, and launch a surprise attack, which will definitely be able to overcome it......."

"What a partial-teacher against a partial-teacher!" Zhao Hu listened to Gao Zongting's advice and shouted. Even if the cavalry is not limited by formation than the foot soldiers, if the flanks are attacked by surprise, they will inevitably fall into disarray.